`INEVITABLE`?

Montgomery MackeyCHICAGO TRIBUNE

The Tribune`s May 20 editorial states that expansion ofthe Du Page Airport is ''inevitable'' and that ''there isn`t really much choice in the matter.'' The Tribune then chastises Kane County officials for their

''unbending opposition'' to this expansion.

Officials from Kane County are representing the clearly expressed desires of their constituents, the people of the Fox River Valley, who will be immediately affected by airport expansion. The push for growth comes from outside interests who have conducted a power grab by way of the state legislature. The Tribune is apparently contemptuous of self-government and democracy, since it doesn`t believe that a free people should really have much choice in the matter.

Perhaps airport expansion is inevitable, but if so, it is only because the greed of special interests so regularly triumphs over self-government in northeastern Illinois.